Picture and looking-glass frame.



P. J. @L H. G GARL I PICTURE AND LOOKING GLASS FRAME.

Patented Nov. 17,1908.

APPLICATION FILED DEO. 16, 1907.

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FRANZ J. CARL AND HERMANN G. CARL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PICTURE AND LOOKING-GLASS FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

Application led December 16, 1907. Serial No. 406,686.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANZ J. CARL and HERMANN G. CARL, citizens of the United States,'residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Picture and Looking-Glass Frames, of which the following is a specification.

Our endeavor in this invention has been to produce a construction applicable to pioture and looking-glass frames, whereby the frames may be greatly varied in appearance and rendered very attractive, without adding materially to their cost.

The invention consists in the novel construction hereinafter set forth and illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is an elevation of a frame embodying our invention; Figs.

2 and 3 are sections thereof on the lines 2-2 and 3 3 respectively of Fig. 1, both enlarged from Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a section of one of the corners, in a plane parallel with front of the frame; Figs. 5 and 6 are sections similar to Fig. 2 of modied constructions.

In said drawing, L7 represents the pieces of molding forming the body or frame of the picture or looking-glass. They are each provided with a flat face 8 upon which the ornamental and ornamenting glass plates 9 are placed. The edges of the frame pieces are all grooved longitudinally as shown in Fig. 2, to adapt them to receive and securely hold the outside molding 10, which, as shown, has an overhanging lip 11 adapted to set over and retain the glass 9, and a tongue 12 adapted to enter the groove of the frame and thus attach the molding to the frame. The inner edges of the frame pieces are also grooved to receive the tongue 13 of the inside molding 14. This inner molding has a lip 15 on its outer vertical side, adapted to set over and retain the adjacent glass 9, and it also has on its inner vertical side another lip 16, setting inward so as to lap over and act as a retainer to the glass front 17 of the picture (or the looking-glass proper if the frame is employed with a looking-glass). In the frame shown at Fig. 2, the picture is shown at 18, the mat surrounding and backing the picture at 19, and the customary protecting paper or veneer back covering at 20. At the corners, and between the glass plates 9 coming together thereat, we insert short pieces of molding 21, having shoulders at each side so it may lap over the proximate mitered edges of the glass. These strips are preferably glued to the frame pieces immediately below them. The frame pieces 7 are mitered together as at Figs. 3 and 4, and secured together by keys or tongues 22 fitting recesses formed in the abutting faces of the pieces coming together at the joint.

In the construction shown we do not employ nails or other metal fastenings of any kind, as all of them can be rendered perfectly secure by the use of glue. The glass plates 9 may be given ornamental backgrounds or be ornamented in any other known way, and with or without set designs as preferred. Being protected at both edges by the moldings 10 and 14, they are but lit tle likely to become injured or broken, and the construction permits the use of small pieces of flat glass, so that the glass used need not be expensive.

In the modified constructions shown at Figs. 5 and 6, we widen the frame sections by employing two of the frame pieces 7 arranged side by side and joined by keys 23, similar to keys 22, and in conjunction therewith we place two glass plates 9 side by side upon the widened frame sections. The bevel of the frame pieces 7 runs in opposite directions in each section or side ofv the frame, either so as to render the surface conveX as in Fig. 5, or concave as in Fig. 6. In both these forms the adjacent glass plates 9 are separated and held down by longitudinal molding strips 24, similar in construction to the molding 21, and secured to the frame between the glass as seen at said figures. 'Ihe glass plates 9 may in these forms be differently ornamented if desired. Both permit dispensing with nails or brads in their manufacture, the same as the construction shown in the main figures.

We prefer to make the moldings 21 and 24 in two parts, the surface or finished portion being one part grooved on its underside, and the body or under part 25 having a tongue 26 fitting said roove and permitting the union of the surface and body by the use of glue.

We claim:

1. In a glass faced frame, the combination with the frame proper and the glass facing, of molding strips applied to the edges of the frame and having lips and tongues formed upon the1n whereby they are frame and having laterally projecting lips, 10 secured to the frame and conne the glass one of which sits over the facing and the facing, and molding 24 between the longother of which engages the frame proper.

tudnally arranged facing plates 9 and hav- FRANZ J CARL ing overhangng shoulders confining sachH HERMANN G ARL plates.

2. In a glass faced frame, the combina- Vtnesses:

tion with the frame proper and the glass H. BI. MUNDAY,

facing, of an edge molding secured to the EDWARD S. EVARTS. 

